He's desperate for attention... any attention.

 

Ralph Nader: 'Save Terri'

(CNSNews.com) - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says a "profound injustice is being inflicted on Terri Schiavo," and he is urging the Florida courts, Gov. Jeb Bush and concerned citizens to take any legal action available to let the brain-damaged woman live.

In a joint statement, Nader and Wesley J. Smith, author of the book "Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America," enumerated what they see as the many injustices in the Schiavo case.

They said the courts, under "color of law," have imposed a slow death by dehydration on Terri, giving every benefit of the doubt to her death, rather than her continued life.

Not only has Terri's feeding tube been removed -- but no attempt has been made to let her try drinking by mouth.

"Terri swallows her own saliva," Nader and Smith said. "Spoon-feeding is not medical treatment. This outrageous order proves that the courts are not merely permitting medical treatment to be withheld, it has ordered her to be made dead," Nader and Smith said.

They also noted that experts are split on whether Terri is in a persistent vegetative state or whether she can improve with therapy. "There is only one way to know for sure -- permit the therapy," they said.

Nader and Smith said the court is imposing "process over justice." They said new evidence should allow for a new trial - which was the point of the federal legislation.

With the government spending billions on cures for people with all sorts of degenerative conditions, isn't it possible that a cure may be developed for people like Terri? they asked. The possibility demands that Terri's parents be granted their wish to take care of her, they said.

"Benefits of doubts should be given to life, not hastened death. This case is rife with doubt. Justice demands that Terri be permitted to live," Nader and Smith concluded.

 

Yeah you're right. It isn't just Jesse Jackson who's using Terri to get their saggy name in the press.

 

so is she dead yet?

 

what irks me is that this braindead woman who is near death is getting more news coverage than thousands alive and functioning but in need of help due to the quakes in the pacific.

 

 

The (sometimes harsh) jokes and the zealots who protest outside the hospital despite the (new) requests from the family to stop... the parade of political bandwagoneers and self righteous... it's all quite expected when you try to grandstand as the parents have done.

Will these people cry out every time anyone has their tube pulled? Feck no. There's no reporter listening the other 3649 times this year.

 

3649 times a year, times 15 years...54,735 people that noone cared about. That kinda makes me happier.

 

The zelots are out around here (Terri was born in my hometown)

 

Don't believe that for a minute Josh. Those people were cared for and loved. The zealots don't have a monopoly on caring. When someone has to make a decision to pull life support it's most often a person who loves and cares enough to NOT be selfish and make that hard decision.

So long Terri. Too bad you had a bunch of sonofabitches make you stay in that pitiful condition for as long as you did.